Gloria Steinem

One afternoon in 1969, Gail Sheehy and Gloria Steinem met for lunch at the Plaza Oak Room in Manhattan. As a special courtesy, the hotel agreed to waive its ban on women attending the restaurant unaccompanied by a man. "Daring: My Passages" — Sheehy's all-encompassing memoir — is full of these gems. They illustrate the story of a woman whose earnest embrace of life and life's challenges reminds us of the obstacles women faced in the early days of second-wave feminism. Sheehy's tale brings readers into New York City in the late '60s and '70s. She was part of the birth of New York magazine and New Journalism, testing out new terrain with...

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